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The Kenmu Restoration was ultimately overthrown when Takauji became Shōgun and founded the Ashikaga Shogunate in 1336, beginning the "Northern and Southern Courts" period and the Muromachi period. [2] The Kenmu Restoration was the last time the Emperor of Japan held significant power until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. [2]
Kenmu (建武) was a Japanese era name of the Northern Court during the Era of Northern and Southern Courts after Shōkei and before Ryakuō. Although Kemmu is understood by the Southern Court as having begun at the same time, the era was construed to have begun after Genkō and before Engen.
This betrayal of the Kenmu Restoration by Takauji blackened his name in later periods of Japanese history, and officially started the Nanboku-chō War. Earlier historiography taught the Restoration failed due to the ineffectiveness in rewarding lands to the samurai. However, it is now clear that the Restoration was effective in this respect. [8]
Ashikaga Takauji (足利 尊氏, August 18, 1305 – June 7, 1358) [1] also known as Minamoto no Takauji was the founder and first shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate. [2] His rule began in 1338, beginning the Muromachi period of Japan, and ended with his death in 1358. [3]
In 1934 the precincts were made a National Historic Site to commemorate the 600th anniversary of the Kenmu restoration. A bronze statue of Nitta Yoshisada was erected in 1983. In the year 2000, the shrine was included as one of the eleven sites covered in the expanded National Historic Site designation of the Nitta shōen ruins .
Mount Kasagi (笠置山, Kasagi-yama) is a 289-meter mountain located in the town of Kasagi, Soraku District, Kyoto Prefecture in the Kansai area of Japan. The mountain is known for its many oddly shaped rocks and as a battlefield during the wars of the Kemmu Restoration at the end of the Kamakura period.
It was the home territory of the Nitta clan, which played an important role in the Kemmu restoration which overthrew the Kamakura shogunate and subsequent wars of the Nanboku-chō period. In the year 2000, eleven sites connected with the Nitta-no-shō within the city of Ōta, Gunma were collectively designated a National Historic Site of Japan. [1]
Shogun (English: / ˈ ʃ oʊ ɡ ʌ n / SHOH-gun; [1] Japanese: 将軍, romanized: shōgun, pronounced [ɕoːɡɯɴ] ⓘ), officially sei-i taishōgun (征夷大将軍, "Commander-in-Chief of the Expeditionary Force Against the Barbarians"), [2] was the title of the military rulers of Japan during most of the period spanning from 1185 to 1868. [3]